More truths from Zinzendorf

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“During the eight years that I labored in the Church as a lay catechist,” he Writes in 1735, “I never attempted expressly to interpret the Scriptures—that is to say, to positively declare that an apostle or a prophet meant to say such and such a thing when the matter was not so clear that every one, whether a Christian or not, would understand it in the same sense.

I confined myself, therefore, to well-known and incontestable truths, and this has always succeeded best with me. Indeed, although I was well aware that knowledge is not the essential thing, and although I had learnt fairly well to distinguish in theological principles those which are certain from those which are probable, and from those which are corollaries from both. I was, nevertheless, exceedingly afraid of falling into the slightest error, for I knew what influence it might have upon the will.
“Moreover, I regarded it as an extreme happiness not to fall into error myself or to lead others astray. By the grace of God, and by keeping to essential and fundamental and clearly and repeatedly revealed truths, this is not so difficult as one might suppose.”
—Published by, Harvey Christian Publishers Inc.
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